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Reservations & a Borrowed Wedding

February 28, 2021 By Anne Warner 1 Comment

Later today I’ll call 600 Kitchen & Bar in downtown Kalamazoo and ask a question I’ve never asked before. “Yes, hello, are you taking reservations for shipping container tables for February 28?”

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary, Jesus, wedding

Sheep Groomers, Shipt Shoppers, and the Blessed Virgin Mary

September 8, 2020 By Ann Benton Fraser Leave a Comment

A scene from that quirky 1993 movie Household Saints had been on my mind, and I found myself watching well beyond the part I intended to revisit.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary, parenting

For the Love of a Mother

August 15, 2020 By Carrie Willard 1 Comment

I have to be very careful when I write about the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary, Feast Days, Mary, motherhood

Celebrating the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary

August 15, 2019 By Betsey Monnot Leave a Comment

Ever since I returned to the church in my twenties, I have been inspired by the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Saints Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary, Christian formation, Feast Days, St. Mary the Virgin, teenagers

Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary

July 26, 2019 By Sara Irwin 4 Comments

Today marks the feast of Joachim and Anne, the parents of Mary and the grandparents of Jesus. They don’t appear in canonical scriptures; lacking source material, generations of Christians have looked for them in themselves.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary, books, Lesser Feasts and Fasts, Mary, parenting, reading

Practicing Gratitude and Joy on the Feast of the Visitation

May 31, 2019 By Ann Benton Fraser 1 Comment

There were exactly two snowballs in my south Louisiana childhood, and they didn’t fall from the sky in Baton Rouge. They rode down from Ohio on the side of our neighbor’s station wagon, and took their shape when she scooped them and gave them to wide-eyed children who had never seen snow.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary, disappointment, Elizabeth, parenting, Visitation

Celebrating Saint Mary the Virgin

August 15, 2018 By Allison Sandlin Liles 3 Comments

Today our church honors Mary, the mother of Jesus; a tradition dating back to the earliest days of the church. The gospels of Matthew and […]

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Faith at Home: Planning Ahead to April

March 23, 2018 By Nurya Love Parish Leave a Comment

In just a little over a week, it will be Easter.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Annunciation, Blessed Virgin Mary, Easter, St. Mark

The gift of the Holy Spirit: gentle as a breath.

June 4, 2017 By Marcus Halley 1 Comment

This Pentecost, how counter-cultural would it be for the church to emphasize the gentleness of Christ’s gift of the spirit? Maybe he discovered that gentleness from his mother.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary, church, Mother's Day, motherhood, peace, Pentecost

Mary, Elizabeth, and you: finding your place in the Feast of the Visitation

May 31, 2017 By Miriam McKenney 4 Comments

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation, when Mary goes to visit her older cousin, Elizabeth after accepting the call to carry and give birth to Jesus. Just why do we celebrate this event? Where’s our place in the story? Let’s find it.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Liturgical Year Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary, Elizabeth, Gabriel, God, Jesus, John, Joseph, Mary, Visitation, Zechariah

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